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Jean Jaques Rousseau : Confessions
'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this work so attentively for the style's sake. Besides this is a singularly unique display of character.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Confessions
' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise
' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped into some of my books. Vol.I Nouvelle Heloise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jaques Rousseau : Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise
' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfortable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Theodore Hook : Sayings and Doings
' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have laughed so much or so heartily. We both laughed. Came up to bed at 9.35.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire
'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several other books, Rhodes Peak Scenery, in 4, I think, thin 4 to vols, with plates. Read there the account of Bakewell Church, Haddow Hall etc.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Henry Moore : Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i
' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin : Amelie Mansfield
' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield. The story interesting. How poor the language after that of Rousseau.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Chateaubriand : Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi
' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a pamphlet by M.Chateaubriand. ' Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi'. Read this as I walked along. Then paid a sol for the Journal Politique.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
: Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique
[ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I read in 1/2 hour while walking in the Gardens' [she goes on to describe death of King reported in paper].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
Richard Polwhele : Sermons: a new volume
Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Lucian :
Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as I had done reading Latin. By the timeI began with Lucian, my mind was a little recovered and I construed Greek.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: [Greek Grammar]
before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Thomas Moore : The Loves of the Angels
[Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetry from p.48 to 63 but [it] is too voluptuous, too Anacreonic, too much that 'by the wildered senseis caught' ' [Quotes from 'The Second Angel's Tale' several times].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: Retrospective Review
[Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I think it one of the best periodicals of the day. The style is to my mind beautiful, bearing rich impress of the hand of scholarship; and the writers ideas of women, whereoccasionally expressed, are free from the Mohamedanism of Moore, and breath rather the unaffected purity of chivalrous respect...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Serial / periodical
Jane Marcet : Conversations on Natural Philosophy
[Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting the system of pulleys she has not gone quite far enough. She has left us to ourselves rather too soon'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
William Cowper : Retirement
[Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How passing sweet were solitude with such an one! "Well born- apart from vulgar minds- the polish of the manners clear" '[quotation from lines 728-733 of'Retirement' by Cowper].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Sophie Cottin : Amelie Mansfield
[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va toucher ce qu'ill y a deplus tendre dans le couer, reveile toutes les idees sensibles, et dispose au regret du bonheur et meme a' Celui de la peine." ... My leisure is passed in rummaging all over the French Novels the miserable public library here affords! I have just finishedAmelie Mansfield. My Aunt fancies I read for the sake of keeping up my French. I seem to be reading the language you are probably speaking.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Edward Bulwer-Lytton : Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham'
[Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read novels, do send for Eugene Aram. Miss Hobart and I have just read it, and thought it well done. ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
J. B. Bernard : Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract
[Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye. On electing monarchy and state religion he seems a visionary and a madman, but he is strong and clever against democracy. A person like Lady Stuart de Rothesay, or such as she has taught me to believe Lady Hardwicke [to be] might read this book, cull out the good, and be interested and instructed. ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Edward Young : The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and
What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words would often have been mine, if heaven had endowed me withsuch giant-powers of speech. Were ever lines more beautiful than the first five of the first night? Shakespeare might have written them. What a description of night! Less beautiful than Milton's so celebrated descrip- -tion of evening (book 4), but moresublime? [quotes from 'Night One'and 'Night two']... I wished I had marked all, or half, my favourite passages- they would shew you a mind fond of deep thought- a haughty spirit unyielding to the storms of time and circumstance - a heart when lulled in Friendship's lap. perhaps as warmly gentle as your own.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Edward Young : The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and
[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edition at home (got another directly), the very lines youmention. I have also marked the following, "Celestil happiness! Where e'er she stoops / To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds" [Night II, ll.516-17]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
John Gregory : A Father's Legacy to His Daughters
[Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woman should never shew the full extent of her regard, even to her husband. Perhaps you are right. But neither right nor Dr. Gregory prescribes that words shoulkd never be employed ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith : The Grecian History
The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the Greeks in general were.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Alexander Hunter : Georgical Essays
My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with the Georgical Essays, I have read a little of the first and third volumes, they are sure to be interesting to me throughout for they are very improving and at the same time entertaining.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Oliver Goldsmith : The Vicar of Wakefield
I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
John Bonnycastle : An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr
Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
Sophlocles : Electra
Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Joseph Hoole : sermons on several important practical subjects
Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: ['Medical Mss']
After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet
: The Bay of Biscay
Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
: Said Eve unto Adam
Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a perspiration, the sun fell on my room and very hot.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works
In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 January
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Edward Gibbon : Miscellaneous Works
In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gender, (as Gibbons wrote toDeyverdum, vol. 604/703...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and poli
This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheets of 4 columns each,one of the most inflamatory radical papers published. hen in Manchester I said to Dr Lyon, I should like to have one to see what it was like, but would be ashamed to ask for it.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper
Colonel Francis Hall : Travels in France in 1818
Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in politics + would perhaps, style himself a philosopher in religion. Consequently, his sentiments + mine on these subjects who as a limited monarchist + a ProtestantChristian according to the established Church of England, are opposite almost as the poles. However, there is some information useful to a tourist.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper
: Annals of philosophy
Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Serial / periodical
Sir Walter Scott : The Monastery. A romance
I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a baronet) last novel The Monastery, in 3 vols, 12 mo stupid enough. Tea at 7:30.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue : Leontine de Blondheim
from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read it with a sort of melancholy feeling, the very germ of which I thought had died for ever. I cried a good deal over the second + more over the third this morning, + as soon as I was alone during supper.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Anthony Todd Thomson : A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e
'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Archibald Alison : Sermons
Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Desmosthenes : All the Orations of Demosthenes
Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerably improved but I am disatisfied with myself for not having got up in the morning as early as I thought.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
William Emerson : The principle of mechanics
Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday and which I mean to attend.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
Thomas Moore : Lallah Rookh or 'Review'
Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore...The extracts from this poetic romance are very beautiful.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
Dr Scudamore : Lectures on physiology
'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lectures on physiology Dr Scudamore lent me 10 days ago. The writing so bad we could not get on very fast. Both of us uninterested.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet
Thomas Leland : All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En
Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel considerably improved.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
William Emerson : Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics
had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalton's lectures which are to begin on Wednesday.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Euclid : The Elements
before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Euclid : The Elements
between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to proceed diligentlyin the hope that [...], may sometime attain a tolerable efficiency in mathematical studies[...] &
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: Bible
All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and...my aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
William Spence : Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe
I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of date.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Sophocles : Philoctetes
Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 to 1527, end of Philoctetes of Sophlocles, & afterwards from p.288 to 296, end of vol.2 Adams translation of the 7 remaining plays of Sophlocles...I feel myself improved & only hope to be going on prosperously [plans further improvement]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister
: The Leeds Mercury
Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a little while then went back to Northgate [...] Isabella had walked to the library newsroom and came to Northgate
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper
: '2 or 3 old papers'
Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave me.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper
James Boswell : The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson
Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the evening service.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Cicero : On/the book of old age
down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Saltmarshes had done dinner. Read a few pp. of a translation of Cicero's treatise on old age. Went to the Saltmarshes at 3.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: Monthly Magazine
From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of the life + writings of the celestial German philosopher + professor, Kant, born , I think in 1723, died 1804. Turned to the article again. I must know more about this extraordinary man + his works by & by.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Joseph Spence : Polymetics Abridged
In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writing a work on antiquities.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: 'Paris guide'
[9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading French + it being the only book I get.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: 'Old Maids'
The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs Norcliffe. 'Old Maids'. A sprightly writer expresses his opinions of old maids in the folowing manner:- I am inclined to believe that many of the satirical aspersions...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper
: European Magazine
In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de Stael rather too tender to Napoleon. One day to get quit of her visit, he sent to say he was not quite dressed. She replied, it mattered not, genius is of no sex.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Serial / periodical
David Henry Urquhart : Commentaries on classical learning
I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirits oil without which, its own friction against itself would wear out.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Jean Jacques Rousseau : Confessions
"The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme [...] Rousseau's confessions, volume and page, first"
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Anne Lister : Journal
Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till 3 when we dined.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs
Caroline Lamb : Glenarvon
In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book I had bought for Miss Morritt from Miss Emily Cholmley...
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
John Stewart : Collections and recollections
Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account of Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
: The art of employing time to the greatest advantage
At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more particularly pleased. There are several hints for journal keeping on which I shall think seriously. There is something highly novel in this work altogether + withal interesting
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
John Ash : Grammatical Institutes
Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Institute of English Grammar, trying to give M - some instruction + lent her the book.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton : Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair
Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen t it to me Saturday 15 November) some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle-Wm Blackwood, Edinburgh + London, 1822.[...]It is a singularly interesting pathetic story, doubly so because told as truth + not improbable [...] I read and roared over this thing till my head ached [...]
Century: Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Edward Young : The complaint, or night thoughts
From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
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Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, after loitering that time, reading the gravestones in the churchyard.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: text printed on gravestones
: The Globe and Traveller
Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron [...] Who admiredhim as a man? yet 'he is gone forever!' The greatest poet of the age! And I am sorry
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Newspaper
Anne Lister : Journal
From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account of my intrigue with Anne Belcombe I read over attentively exclaiming to myself, 'oh women, women'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal
George Gordon, Lord Byron : Childe Harold
'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics at the end of the book in readiness to take it back. Set off down the old bank a little before 4. Staid at the library above an hour looking out a couple of books with proper prints for the children to copy at Pye Nest.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Anthony Todd Thomson : A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London
Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 mo. Price 5/-, 5th edition
